High-Impact Teaching Strategies for the 'XYZ' Era of Education

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-10
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary

This book lays out strategies teachers can employ to make the best use of high-impact technology to engage the new, tech-savvy generations that fill today's classroom. Offers 26 (A-Z) High-Impact Strategies, which are divided into seven sections: In General; The Connection; The Big Picture; Focus on Classroom Management; In Practice; Next Step; and Your Ideas Features a series of High-Impact Lessons from real teachers, classrooms, and students Addresses the need for teachers to adjust their teaching strategies to meet the needs of all learners Includes 10 stories for use as classroom examples K-12 classroom teachers

Author Biography

Dr. Rich Allen is a highly regarded educator and master trainer, with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. His cognitive learning theory research, which provided understanding on how the brain receives, processes, stores, and recalls information, forms the basis for his radical approach to teaching, presenting and facilitating.

In 25 years of taking his ideas around the world, he has changed the lives of thousands of educators and executives, by giving them practical new presentation and teaching techniques that massively increase personal effectiveness.

Rich is a much sought after keynote speaker at international education conferences and leads workshops for school districts all over the world. He is a regular speaker at the Brain Expo, leads an annual course for student teachers in the UK and works with schools and school districts in the US, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Russia.

A former high school math and drama teacher, Rich was a Director and Lead Facilitator for SuperCamp, a 10-day accelerated learning program for teens, before focusing on teaching brain-based learning strategies to adults. He is the author of a number of best-selling education books including: Impact Teaching and Green Light Classrooms.

Table of Contents

Understanding the Dynamics of the 'XYZ' Era of Education
High-Impact ABC Strategies
Acknowledgment
Being Open
Crest of the Wave
Directions
Entertainment
Frames
Getting Responses
High-Quality Responses
Involve, Don't Tell
Jump Up
Keen Visuals
Labels
Music
Novelty
Ownership
Pause
Questions
Revolutions
Socialization
Tiers
Uniquely Memorable
Vocal Italics
Walk Away
X-Ray Vision
Yesterday Lives!
Zones of Instruction
The Presence of Chlorophyll in Leaves
Natural Resources
Using Question Marks Appropriately
Know Your State
Sentence Types
ABCs on the Move
Photo Journal Review
Native American Legends
Animals in the Ocean
Plotting Points on the Coordinate Grid
American History Time Lines
Can You Dig It?
Review Baseball
Docent of Your Own Museum-Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History and Culture
Carrying Capacity of a Landscape
A Final Thought
Lessons in the Language of Learning
Appendix
Stories
The Strawberry
The Traveler
The Animal School
The White Horse
The Castle Wall
The Two Seeds
The 1958 World Series
The Caterpillars
The Bicycle
References
Index
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